![]() ![]() The transformative ambition and universal applicability of the 2030 Agenda challenges the United Nations to remain steadfast in ensuring that the SDGs are implemented in accordance with international human rights law, eliminating gender inequalities and all forms of discrimination, reaching out to those that are furthest behind first, to ensure that no one is left behind. Here are the goals directly from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Goal 1. What does this mean for the United Nations? If SDG implementation fails to uphold these values, progress will ultimately prove illusive. ![]() Integrating universal values into SDG implementation also assists countries in meeting their international obligations. It provides an overarching vision and a global framework for national strategies and policies in both. Universal values allow us to go beyond abstract aggregates to addressing discrimination and other root causes of inequality, that lie at the heart of poverty and conflict. The 2030 Agenda serves as an umbrella for the other three. Universal values are what enable the SDGs to be truly transformative, by placing the person and their inherent dignity at the heart of development efforts, empowering all people to become active partners in this endeavour. "We envisage a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination of respect for race, ethnicity and cultural diversity… A just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world in which the needs of the most vulnerable are met." Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development The unfinished business of achieving the goals and the broader scope and inter-relatedness of the 2030 agenda and agenda 2063 call for stronger institutional. ![]() Photo: © Report Cover: UN-Water, 2016: Water and Sanitation Interlinkages across the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 2030 Agenda Photo: UN Women/Jashim Salam UNSDG and the 2030 Agenda United Nations Member States decided to fundamentally transform the development coordination system to better enable the UN. ![]()
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